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Dumping game data from Escape From Tarkov

This guide covers everything you need to know to dump all the data you need from Escape From Tarkov.

Note


It is highly recommended that you read the guide at least once before executing what's written here.**

Theory

The game uses HTTP-secured protocol (TLS 1.2) to obtain data from the server (mostly of it not related to a raid). While the game's security is lacking, it does still block conventional tools for packet capturing. We also cannot just simply use altered assembly either, because the launcher does an integrity check.

The game, however, does not check for integrity.

As such, we can patch the assembly to bypass the security mechanisms in place to dump our data. To be more specific, we alter the BattleEye and certificate checking always return successfully. We also add logic for saving the data received from the server. We use the "swap exploit" by quickly replacing the assembly when the game starts to load our custom assembly.

To be able to make patches, we deobfuscate the assembly. But since de4dot isn't capable of understanding the obfuscation algorithm fully, we use an additional specialized deobfuscator command. In addition, we save the assembly in the gamefiles before making modifications to fix a resolutionscope error.

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path what example
%gamedir% Escape From Tarkov (Live) C:/games/EFT/ (Live)

Requirements

Dumper

  1. Copy-paste %gamedir%/EscapeFromTarkov_Data/Managed/Assembly-CSharp.dll to your de4dot folder.
  2. Drag Assembly-CSharp.dll on top of de4ot-x64.exe.
  3. Open Assembly-CSharp-cleaned.dll in dnSpy.
  4. Find the deobfuscation method (appendix 1.1).
  5. Run the deobfuscate command with the token from the deobfuscation method (appendix 1.2).
  6. Cut-paste Assembly-CSharp-cleaned-cleaned.dll to %gamedir%/EscapeFromTarkov_Data/Managed/.
  7. Open Assembly-CSharp-cleaned-cleaned.dll in dnSpy.
  8. dnSpy > File > Save Module.
  9. Apply dumper patch (appendix 1.3).
  10. Apply ssl patch (appendix 1.4).
  11. Apply battleye patch (appendix 1.5).
  12. dnSpy > File > Save Module.

Backup

  1. Create %gamedir%/backup/.
  2. Copy-paste Assembly-CSharp.dll to %gamedir%/backup/.
  3. Rename Assembly-CSharp.dll in %gamedir%/backup/ to Assembly-CSharp.dll.bak.
  4. Cut-paste Assembly-CSharp-cleaned-cleaned.dll to %gamedir%/backup/.
  5. Rename Assembly-CSharp-cleaned-cleaned.dll in %gamedir%/backup/ to Assembly-CSharp.dll.

Dumping server data

  1. Open Battlestate Games Launcher.
  2. Battlestate Games Launcher > settings > close launcher when game starts.
  3. Start the game.
  4. Copy-paste %gamedir%/backup/Assembly-CSharp.dll to %gamedir%/EscapeFromTarkov_Data/Managed/ when the launcher closes.
  5. %gamedir%/HTTP_DATA/ appears when you reached the main menu.
  6. Dump the data (appendix 2).
  7. Close the game.
  8. Replace Assembly-CSharp.dll with the original assembly.

Dumping asset data

  1. Open AssetStudio.
  2. AssetStudio > File > Load File > %gamedir%/EscapeFromTarkov_Data/sharedassets2.assets.
  3. Switch from Scene Hierarchy to Asset List.
  4. AssetStudio > Filter Type > what you look for (example: TextAsset).
  5. Select the map files you want (example: bigmap2, RezervBase6).
  6. AssetStudio > Export > Selected Assets.

Conclusion

Congratulations, you've succesfully dumped Escape From Tarkov's data.

In order to use it in Aki's database, you have 2 options:

  • Manually convert the data.
  • Use a tool like aki-analyzer to convert the data into a format the server accepts.

The data does contain sensitive information such as you account id, so be careful whom you share it with. aki-analyzer strips out the sensitive information when it converts the data to the right format. And no, the data dumped from the game server cannot be uploaded back to the game server.

Appendix 1: Code

All code is based on Escape From Tarkov 0.12.8.9819.

Deobfuscation method in assembly

// Token: 0x0600C93A RID: 51514 RVA: 0x0012038D File Offset: 0x0011E58D
Class2019.smethod_0()
{
    return (string)((Hashtable)AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetData(Class2019.string_0))[int_0];
}

Deobfuscation command

de4dot-x64.exe --un-name "!^<>[a-z0-9]$&!^<>[a-z0-9]__.$&![A-Z][A-Z]\$<>.$&^[a-zA-Z_<{$][a-zA-Z_0-9<>{}$.`-]*$" "Assembly-CSharp-cleaned.dll" --strtyp delegate --strtok 0x0600C93A

Dumper patch

Class157.method_10()
{
    // add this at the end, before the method returns
    Uri urlUri = new Uri(url);
    string path = (System.IO.Directory.GetCurrentDirectory() + "\\HTTP_DATA\\").Replace("\\\\", "\\");
    if (System.IO.Directory.CreateDirectory(path).Exists)
    {
        System.IO.File.WriteAllText(path + urlUri.LocalPath.Replace('/', '.') + ".json", value);
    }
}

SSL cert patch

Class505.ValidateCertificate()
{
    // replace the method body content with this
    return true;
}

Battleye patch

Class784.RunValidation()
{
    // replace the method body content with this
    this.Succeed = true;
}

Appendix 2: Obtaining specific data

This discusses how you can obtain certain data with the dumper installed.

Type How
Startup locales Start the game in the locale you want to dump.
Game locales Select the locale in game settings.
Common data Start the game.
Assort Open the trader you want to dump from.
Bots Do an offline raid on a map containing that bot.
Item events Do the specifiic item event.
Images Open the menu containing the image, it's dumped to %TEMP%\Battlestate Games\EscapeFromTarkov\files.
Location (loot) Rip from game files.
Models Rip from game files.
Textures Rip from game files.
Audio Rip from game files.